Comments on: FAQs for Contributors http://raggedclothcafe.com Discussions and ideas about art and textile art Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:36:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: pamelahardesty http://raggedclothcafe.com/faqs-for-contributors/#comment-3046 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:56:03 +0000 http://junomain.wordpress.com/faqs-for-contributors/#comment-3046 Greetings from Ireland! I welcome this forum; I crave discussion and resource. I am an American artist living here since 1986, pursuing issues around the fine art of textiles–making and matter–in an evolving body of work using paper and stitch, or glass, wire, and stone. I also teach (since 1990)Textiles within a Fine Art Degree programme in Cork city. Currently I am preparing to embark on a new adventure: I have proposed and created, had validated– a new Certificate course in Fine Art Textiles, part-time, for the many textile-motivated artists out here who wish some group interaction, context of Fine Art, context of Textiles history and theory, College credit. We start in three weeks! I am working on the course content and structure, and benefitting from the discussions and references on your site.

I do have one question:

Last month in all my trawling of net and library I found a recent article/editorial addressing the issue: When is textiles fine art? The author tackled the fine line between design and art; I made a mental note that this article would start our new course discussion quite well–since many of the new participants come from a design/craft background. Unfortunately I did not make a written note–and have lost the source. Does anyone out there know of such a recent article? Or any other concise and wise authoritative musing on this subject?

Many thanks!

Pamela Hardesty

]]>